Cardea

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Cardea m or f by sense

1. a surname

• Carda

From cardō (“hinge”).

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.de.a/, [ˈkärd̪eä]
• (modern Italianate Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /ˈkar.de.a/, [ˈkärd̪eä]

Cardea f sg (genitive Cardeae); first declension

1. (Roman mythology) The goddess who presided over the hinges of doors and therefore over the family

First-declension noun, singular only.

• “Cardea”, in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• Cardea in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré latin-français, Hachette.